UMass-Lowell visits Banks and UMass

UMass-Lowell River Hawks (3-6) at UMass Minutemen (5-3)

Amherst, Massachusetts; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: UMass hosts UMass-Lowell after Marcus Banks scored 29 points in UMass' 78-71 win against the Harvard Crimson.

The Minutemen are 4-1 in home games. UMass ranks eighth in the MAC in rebounding with 31.9 rebounds. Leonardo Bettiol leads the Minutemen with 8.4 boards.

The River Hawks have gone 1-5 away from home. UMass-Lowell is 2-2 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 13.8 turnovers per game.

UMass' average of 7.3 made 3-pointers per game is 2.1 fewer made shots on average than the 9.4 per game UMass-Lowell allows. UMass-Lowell has shot at a 46.0% rate from the field this season, 1.7 percentage points higher than the 44.3% shooting opponents of UMass have averaged.

TOP PERFORMERS: Banks is scoring 17.3 points per game and averaging 2.3 rebounds for the Minutemen. K'Jei Parker is averaging 1.9 made 3-pointers.

JJ Massaquoi is shooting 64.9% and averaging 14.6 points for the River Hawks. Austin Green is averaging 13.9 points.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.